Jill and David and Travels with Nancy: Safely Home

Friday, June 17, 2011

Safely Home

We arrived back in Plymouth on Sunday 12th June having been reunited with Nancy at FedEx offices at Heathrow. Quite an eventful journey which we will update in the near future but at the moment the preparations for Malin and Eunice's wedding tomorrow are taking priority. Thank you everybody who has followed our trip. It's like Groundhog day being back, nothing seems to have changed, but more of that later. xD&J

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Bob DenmanJune 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Glad to hear you are home safely and all is well. best wishes to the newly weds.
Bob and Dave
still bumbling about in the US.
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RollaJuly 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM
I keep looking for you when I hit a new town but no luck. Hope you are adjusting to home and figuring out your next departure date.
Chris
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Hi there,

Thank you for visiting our Blog of our motor bike travels through the Americas on a BMW R80 G/S.We hope you get as much pleasure reading it as we hope to have writing about our adventures. And of course we hope you will get in touch with us via the 'comments' box on the Blog.

For those of you who don't know us yet, we just thought we would take a moment to introduce ourselves.

First of all we are two middle aged youngsters having a gap year or more. The decision to up sticks and travel for a while had organic origins. For David, to see more the world, how other folks live and to challenge some of his own beliefs, has been an ambition for quite some time. For me travelling to other parts of the world has been one of those things I have wanted to do with my life, but with less philosophical questions in mind, more an inquisitiveness about places and people; the question was always when and how.

I guess also that lately both of us were beginning to question what after a combined 108 years on the planet, with most of that caught up in the work cycle, is it all about. Is it all about work and pension, or are there other ways of enriching our lives. I guess we may never know the answer to that conundrum, but we jointly felt that human life is short in the greater scheme of things, and it seemed to us that there is so much to see and do in the world.

It was not easy arriving at the decision to put on hold our lives as we knew it, in order to explore what it is possible to know about ourselves in the world. There were all sorts of compromises to make. Consequently, the decision took around 5 yrs from initial musings to a full blown plan. Well we say plan. There was no plan other than to travel. The decision about where and how to travel ranged from backpacking to sailing, to camper-vanning, and motorbiking. In the end we both enjoy biking and camping, having travelled extensively by bike through Europe, and we had an idea it might be fun to bike the Pan American Highway from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. And of course we needed to do it whilst we are still fit enough to handle a fully loaded bike and the challenges of camping.

So that was it. Given the green light David set about feverishly planning, whilst I completed my PhD which was finally submitted just as we departed.

And so as we pulled away from our home, waved off by our friends, began the realisation that it is possible to take our lives in a different direction, in the pursuit of understanding what.....it is all about.

Let the journey begin........

Jill and David and Travels with Nancy

Friday, June 17, 2011

Safely Home

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